Megan Hilty Quotes
I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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My mom and I are very close.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
